Sham Quotes

96 quotes by 81 authors

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer.… — Hugo Chavez
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people — Jesse Ventura
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain
As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the… — Frederick Douglass
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that… — Douglas MacArthur
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and… — Pat Buchanan
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the… — William Borah
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of… — George Bernard Shaw
The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at… — Ludwig von Mises
I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not surrender my principles.… — Gerald Howarth
Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible… — Max Ehrmann
I still think people will find out that Iâ€™m really not very talented. Iâ€™m really not very good. Itâ€™s all been a big sham. — Michelle Pfeiffer
Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil. — Rob Corddry
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals… — Terry Pratchett

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